[NTLUG:Discuss] Drive becoming read-only after 40 minutes?!?

Stuart Johnston saj at thecommune.net
Thu Sep 20 10:02:55 CDT 2007


Stephen Davidson wrote:
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> Fred wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>>> booting SuSE 10.2 from a 300Gb 
>>> UDB drive.  It boots OK, runs just fine for ~40 minutes then quite 
...
> Something else to be aware of, USB (Flash) devices only have a limited
> number of writes, something like 100K.  Fine for storing user files,
> etc.  But for heavy writes (like system logs), tends to burn them out
> pretty quickly.

Please let me know where I can get one of these 300Gb USB Flash drives. 
  --Thanks.  ;)



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